TELEGRAM TO THE PRESIDIUM OF THE ALL-UKRAINE CONFERENCE OF BOROTBISTS[1]

Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIV.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1975,

      Moscow,Volume 44,

      page357b.Translated:Clemens DuttTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive.You may freely copy, distribute,
	display and perform this work, as well as make derivative and
	commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet
	Archive” as your source.•README

16. III. 1920

Rakovsky,Ukrainian Council of People’s Commissars,for Blakitny, Presidium of the All-Ukraine Conferenceof BorotbistsKharkov

Ithank you for the greetings from the bottom of my heart.
Warmest wishes for the success of the conference,
particularly for the success of the work that has been begun for
merging with the Party of Bolsheviks.

[1]TheUkrainian petty-bourgeois nationalist Borotba Partyarose in
May 1918 after the split in the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary
Party. It got its name from the central organ of the party—the
newspaperBorotba(Struggle). The Borotbists twice applied to
the Executive Committee of the Communist International to be
allowed to affiliate to the Communist International. On February 
26, 1920, the Communist International by a special decision
called on the Borotbists to dissolve their party and merge with
the C.P.(B.) of the Ukraine.

Owingto the growing influence of the Bolsheviks among the
mass of the peasants and the successes of Soviet power in the
Ukraine, the Borotbists at their conference in the middle of March
1920 were compelled to pass a decision to dissolve their party.
A decision to admit the Borotbists to membership of the
Ukrainian C.P.(B.) was adopted at the Fourth All-Ukraine Conference
of the C.P.(B.)U., which took place from March 17 to 23, 1920.